So far, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.
Hedges Report: Imperial Overreach
Category: Nuclear Weapons
DAY 10: WAR ON IRAN
Trump yo-yos on when the war ends and Iran says we decide; Australia sending plane to UAE; Rubio worried about Iraq embassy; Trump says Iran would’ve nuked Israel already; and U.S.-Israel air strikes damage UNESCO sites in Isfahan.
DAY 9: ATTACK ON IRAN
U.S. nuclear command planes in the region; Lindsey Graham doesn’t like the new Iran supreme leader and tells the IDF how to run the war; and an AI fake of captured U.S. soldiers is exposed.
WATCH: CN LIVE! — ‘US in Denial’ w/ Scott Ritter
Scott Ritters discusses U.S. military losses across the Middle East in its aggression against Iran and how Washington is coping with it. Does the U.S. have a future in the region? Watch the replay.
Vijay Prashad: The Nuclear Deception
There are no nuclear weapons in Iran. To go to war on that pretext is for Trump to follow the example of George W. Bush and his “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. Where were those weapons? In his imagination.
Jeffrey Sachs: Attack on Iran Also an Assault on UN
The U.S. objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the U.N. and the international rule of law — an attempt that will fail.
Vijay Prashad: Bombs That Polish the Skulls of the Dead
With New START now expired, the United States’ withdrawal from arms control treaties and its embrace of nuclear “warfighting” doctrines are raising the risk of catastrophic conflict between nuclear powers.
WATCH: Will Israel Blackmail Trump to Attack Iran?
A former senior Israeli intelligence officer tells Consortium News’ CN Live! Benjamin Netanyahu can threaten to release unredacted revelations about Donald Trump in the Epstein files to get him to attack Tehran.
WATCH: The World This Week – Episode 4
Hiding Epstein’s ties to Israel; new nuclear danger as New START ends; Palestine Action acquitted in London, poised to protest Herzog in Sydney, The World This Week. Watch the replay.
START Is Finished
As the arms treaty ends today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been to global thermonuclear annihilation.